Blog: Feed Change
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OK, I Only Have $5, What Should I Eat? – A CalFresh Story
“I thought I didn’t deserve help, that I wasn’t poor enough or there were other people who needed it more than me,” explained Maria, a student at San Diego City College, when asked why she hadn’t applied for CalFresh earlier. This said by a young woman who is a full-time [...]
Top Volunteers: September 2018
Volunteer Spotlight: Meet Jerinice Quiles, our new AmeriCorps Volunteer Fellow. She will be supporting the Volunteer Department with volunteer recruitment, onboarding, event coordination, and community outreach. She's originally from Puerto Rico and grew up in Orlando, FL. Jerinice is excited to get involved with her new community and to help FSD [...]
Teams for Good: Give Hope, Share Joy, Do Good
While the holidays are a time of celebration and abundance for many, other people in our community experience the joy of the season tempered by the anxiety of financial stress. Last year with the help of the community, Feeding San Diego provided more than 4.2 million meals for local, food-insecure [...]
It’s Really Really Free: New Farmers Market Sprouts on Miramar College Campus
Almost everyone who encounters a Feeding San Diego farmers market on college campuses has trouble believing that everything is free. As humans just trying to get by with our daily lives in the fast-moving, hustling 21st Century, we can be forgiven for sometimes being a little suspicious or cynical. After [...]
College Students Learn About an Important Food Resource
Feeding San Diego & Mesa College Give a Primer on CalFresh Between the rising cost of tuition, paying for books, housing, transportation, utilities, phones, and more, affording food is often the first place students make budget cuts. It’s become cliché that students subsist on ramen, but it’s a topic that can’t [...]
FUEL FOR SUMMER 2018: HOW YOU HELPED KIDS THIS SUMMER
The aroma of Italian seasoning comes from the community room as children and their families arrive at the Lincoln Acres Branch Library for lunch. On today’s menu: homemade meatball subs, cucumbers, fresh fruit and milk. “I like that the meals are healthy and variety of types of meals,” one of [...]
